Encore: Leveraging Your Military Career to Carve Out a Cyber Security Career with Dr. Michael Chipley
Description
Dr. Michael Chipley, the Founder and President of the PMC Group, is the guest for today’s podcast.
Dr. Chipley has over 30 years of consulting experience in the areas of Program and Project Management, Cybersecurity, Energy and Environmental (LEED, Energy Star, and Carbon Footprint); Critical Infrastructure Protection and Analysis; Building Information Modeling (BIM) Technology; Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC), and Emergency Management/Disaster Recovery.
Dr. Chipley served 24 years as a Civil Engineer in the US Air Force and has been consulting since 2001. He is a former adjunct faculty member at George Mason University, where he taught the Infrastructure Security Engineering, Building Security, and Building Information Modeling courses.
Dr. Chipley grew up on a farm in Oregon. He is a long-time contributor to cybersecurity for control systems, civil engineer, US Airforce veteran, husband, father, grandfather, outdoor enthusiast, and wine enthusiast. He joins Derek Harp today to discuss his military background and career journey and share his insights and advice.
You will not want to miss this episode if you are leaving the military and considering a career in cybersecurity. Stay tuned to hear Dr. Chipley’s story and benefit from his breadth of experience!
Show highlights:
- What Dr. Chipley did and studied during the 24 years he spent in the military.
- Dr. Chipley talks about Shodan.io and what it can do.
- Some advice about skills and opportunities in the control systems space.
- How Dr. Chipley benefited from joining the military.
- Why you can never stop learning in the control systems world.
- Why women tend to excel in the cyber field.
- How students can find opportunities to join internship programs.
- Potential challenges that people in cybersecurity could face.
- Some of the projects with which Dr. Chipley is currently involved.
- What can young people do to add to their knowledge and education to increase their value five years from now?
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